"This is very embarrassing. You would think
that modern man would have outgrown such archaic tactics by this
time. Here we are once again, an evil yellow man torturing the
valiant white hero."
(Crimelord
Tanaka to Tommy, who's been captured)

In the 1986 actioner, Armed
Response, Los Angeles private eye CLAY ROTH, a blonde
pretty boy, and his sleazy partner Cory are hired by Akira Tanaka,
the treacherous Japanese mobster who controls the local Yakuza,
to retrieve a jade statue being presented as a peace offering
by a Chinese Tong in an effort to avoid a gang war. Unfortunately,
Cory gets greedy, and Clay gets murdered, which about wraps up
the P.I. portion of the film.

Enter Clay's tightly knit and deadly family: Father Burt, a
hard-ass ex-cop and his brothers, Jim and Tommy, two seasoned
combat vets, who decide a little vengeance is in order. Leaving
the cops out of it, Burt and the boys take on the local Yakusa
themselves.

This is pure popcorn (and I mean that in a good way), starring
B-flick pros David Carradine and Lee Van Cleef. There's the usual
adult language, adult situations, some brief nudity and a few
kick-ass stunts.

Fred Olen Ray is an old B-flick pro himself, a nototious one-man
film industry, acting, writing, producing and helming such classics
as Scream Queen Hot Tub Party and Hollywood
Chainsaw Hookers.

Co-writer T.L. Lankford is actually Terrill Lee Lankford, author
of such solid crime novels as Shooters, Angry Moon
and Earthquake Weather, as well as a frequent accomplice
of Ray.